Medium severity6.3NVD Advisory· Published Jun 27, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-5728
CVE-2016-5728
Description
Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
12- git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvdVendor Advisory
- github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6nvdVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616nvd
- www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538802/30/0/threadednvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-2nvd
- bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cginvd
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